Dark Tourism
Travels in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone raise broader questions about humanity’s appetite for risk and the appeal of “dark tourism.”
Three decades ago, Chernobyl was the site of one of the biggest nuclear disasters in history. Today, it is becoming a destination for adventurers and explorers.
The tension between those two facts is what struck me when I first visited the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, the 30-km radius around the Chernobyl power plant that was evacuated in the wake of the explosion. At the time I made my trip, in 2017, I had no intention of creating
